Blood clots caused death of 24-hour hospital wait woman
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Blood clots from a long period of inactivity killed a woman who died last month on a waiting room floor at a New York hospital, the state's medical examiner said Friday, reports CNN.
Surveillance video shows Esmin Green on the hospital floor for more than an hour before anyone helps her.
The death of Esmin Green attracted media attention worldwide when a security camera captured hospital employees and other patients appearing to ignore her when she slumped out of a chair and began convulsing on the floor.
The Jamaican immigrant had been involuntarily admitted to Kings County Hospital in Brooklyn, New York, on June 18 for what the hospital described as "agitation and psychosis."
The security video, released earlier this month by the New York Civil Liberties Union, showed that the mother of six waited in a chair for nearly 24 hours before she fell on the floor on June 19.
An hour went by before a hospital employee nudged Green, 49, with her foot and summoned help.
The NYCLU alleged that hospital records were falsified to show that Green had been "sitting quietly in the waiting room" a little more than 10 minutes after she had stopped moving and 48 minutes after she slid to the floor.
Can you even believe that this could happen? That a woman could be lying on the floor in a so-called caring environment and be ignored for an hour? Have you ever experienced or witnessed horrendous medical treatment? Or is this simply a very rare, and very sad, case?
Surveillance video shows Esmin Green on the hospital floor for more than an hour before anyone helps her.
The death of Esmin Green attracted media attention worldwide when a security camera captured hospital employees and other patients appearing to ignore her when she slumped out of a chair and began convulsing on the floor.
The Jamaican immigrant had been involuntarily admitted to Kings County Hospital in Brooklyn, New York, on June 18 for what the hospital described as "agitation and psychosis."
The security video, released earlier this month by the New York Civil Liberties Union, showed that the mother of six waited in a chair for nearly 24 hours before she fell on the floor on June 19.
An hour went by before a hospital employee nudged Green, 49, with her foot and summoned help.
The NYCLU alleged that hospital records were falsified to show that Green had been "sitting quietly in the waiting room" a little more than 10 minutes after she had stopped moving and 48 minutes after she slid to the floor.
Can you even believe that this could happen? That a woman could be lying on the floor in a so-called caring environment and be ignored for an hour? Have you ever experienced or witnessed horrendous medical treatment? Or is this simply a very rare, and very sad, case?
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- LindseyIndigo
- 2 months ago
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How could they stand there and do nothing? She was probably uninsured? and it sounds like she may have been misdiagnosed, somebody's SOAP notes were way off.
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- Enjoy_Cannabis
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